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When I had just turned 18 in 1964, my Father allowed me to get my car drivers license, after having forced me to ride a TRW 500cc side valve parallel twin Triumph ex-Army motorcycle since my 16th birthday, when he allowed me get my motorcycle license on a 2 tone Blue 50cc Honda Super Cub step thru as a commuter for school. The TRW was for weekends only, or going to Sea Cadets every Wednesday evening. That moved me up in the world from taking the bus everywhere.
In '64 my Father found me a $500.oo Cdn. Austin Healey BN1-100-4, LHD, Black paint over Red, faded red upholstery, w.faded Brown Leather seats, Aluminum finned brake drums with pressed steel liners with red paint in each of the depressions between each fin, & reverse H -- 4 speed transmission shift lever that was mounted on the left rear side of the trans. tunnel which would force the gear lever to hit my hip every time I shifted into reverse, & w. electric-overdrive in 3rd & 4th & a stock, i.e.. original looking 140 MPH speedo,{not 120mph} that was supposedly a '53 registered as a '54 when brought back to Canada when the original owner, an RCAF pilot brought it back from France in '54, after buying it at the factory in England in '53.
This info I got thru serendipity, from a woman who worked at the co. where I had a p/t after school/weekend job. Her father had a Garage/Service station. On the first day that I took the Healey to work, she told me that 10 years earlier she had dated and was once engaged to an RCAF pilot who had been a customer of her fathers garage & had the same car undercoated & rustproofed, as her father had a ZIEBART rustproofing franchise. She told me that her pilot boyfriend {based at the then active now decommissioned RCAF airbase in Gimli Manitoba} had gotten her father to fabricate a steel oil pan protecter shroud with a hole in it large enough to get a socket onto the oil drain plug . Mine had the oil pan protecter & was undercoated & had a Ziebart decal in the engine bay. . A search of the warrantee records at the family garage, for the undercoating, verified the same vin # .
A year later when I had the head de-coked & a valve job done, the mechanic working on the engine told me that he had only seen the higher compression pistons, rather than the standard dished pistons, & 3 angle grind on the valves & seats, & special lighter pushrods as well as that 140mph speedo & REVERSE H 4 spd. trans. on the first few dozen factory specials prepared for "Special" customers from the very early production run, when he had worked at the factory as a special performance dept. apprentice after graduating from an engineering trade school.
I sold the Healey in '67, { to pay for a marriage that fell through} for $1,500.oo Cdn., to a fellow in Wpg. who later sold it to the Winnipeg representative of BOAC airline. That owner advertised it for sale in Road & Track in the late 70's for $40,000.oo U.S. w. a New England U.S.A. address. After that I have no idea what has happened to this car. All of my familys possessions were destroyed in a fire in the '90's so I don't have the engine ser. # or any pics. of the Healey, not even the framed speeding ticket I received for going 127 mph, across the FLAT & STRAIGHT TRANS CANADA HIGHWAY, on the White Horse Plains of Manitoba. Clocked by an overhead Highway patrol aircraft of the RCMP, who timed me with a stopwatch while I crossed several 1 mile separated paint strips on the highway. The judge fined me $130.oo Cdn. & suspended my license for 30 days. Would anyone have any idea of the whereabouts of this Healey 100-4 today?
I'll post about other Brit. & 3 French & 2 Italian cars in future posts if I live to tell further tales. I hope some of you enjoyed this true but ​old tale. Danno.
In '64 my Father found me a $500.oo Cdn. Austin Healey BN1-100-4, LHD, Black paint over Red, faded red upholstery, w.faded Brown Leather seats, Aluminum finned brake drums with pressed steel liners with red paint in each of the depressions between each fin, & reverse H -- 4 speed transmission shift lever that was mounted on the left rear side of the trans. tunnel which would force the gear lever to hit my hip every time I shifted into reverse, & w. electric-overdrive in 3rd & 4th & a stock, i.e.. original looking 140 MPH speedo,{not 120mph} that was supposedly a '53 registered as a '54 when brought back to Canada when the original owner, an RCAF pilot brought it back from France in '54, after buying it at the factory in England in '53.
This info I got thru serendipity, from a woman who worked at the co. where I had a p/t after school/weekend job. Her father had a Garage/Service station. On the first day that I took the Healey to work, she told me that 10 years earlier she had dated and was once engaged to an RCAF pilot who had been a customer of her fathers garage & had the same car undercoated & rustproofed, as her father had a ZIEBART rustproofing franchise. She told me that her pilot boyfriend {based at the then active now decommissioned RCAF airbase in Gimli Manitoba} had gotten her father to fabricate a steel oil pan protecter shroud with a hole in it large enough to get a socket onto the oil drain plug . Mine had the oil pan protecter & was undercoated & had a Ziebart decal in the engine bay. . A search of the warrantee records at the family garage, for the undercoating, verified the same vin # .
A year later when I had the head de-coked & a valve job done, the mechanic working on the engine told me that he had only seen the higher compression pistons, rather than the standard dished pistons, & 3 angle grind on the valves & seats, & special lighter pushrods as well as that 140mph speedo & REVERSE H 4 spd. trans. on the first few dozen factory specials prepared for "Special" customers from the very early production run, when he had worked at the factory as a special performance dept. apprentice after graduating from an engineering trade school.
I sold the Healey in '67, { to pay for a marriage that fell through} for $1,500.oo Cdn., to a fellow in Wpg. who later sold it to the Winnipeg representative of BOAC airline. That owner advertised it for sale in Road & Track in the late 70's for $40,000.oo U.S. w. a New England U.S.A. address. After that I have no idea what has happened to this car. All of my familys possessions were destroyed in a fire in the '90's so I don't have the engine ser. # or any pics. of the Healey, not even the framed speeding ticket I received for going 127 mph, across the FLAT & STRAIGHT TRANS CANADA HIGHWAY, on the White Horse Plains of Manitoba. Clocked by an overhead Highway patrol aircraft of the RCMP, who timed me with a stopwatch while I crossed several 1 mile separated paint strips on the highway. The judge fined me $130.oo Cdn. & suspended my license for 30 days. Would anyone have any idea of the whereabouts of this Healey 100-4 today?
I'll post about other Brit. & 3 French & 2 Italian cars in future posts if I live to tell further tales. I hope some of you enjoyed this true but ​old tale. Danno.
